Automobile cushioning fender



May 26, 1925. 1,539,077

W. G. COX

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WILLIAM G. cox, or QLEVELAND, OHIO, nssreno'a TO THE Enron AXLE & SPRING COMPANY, A CORPORATION or OHIO. 1

AUTOMOBILE GUSHIONING FENDER.

Application filed September 20, 1923. Serial No. 663,804.

This invention relates to an improvement.

in a cushioning tender for automobiles, andmy ob ect is to provide a triple bar render in which one bar is made of spring material and formed with S-shaped bends to promote spring cushioning effects under shock and also to permit the fender to be readily attached to and supported upon an automobile frame, and the formation of this bar and its placement in respect to the other bars is also such that its main body or middle portion is extended flush with and parallel to the remaining bars to become a component part of the impact area of the fender.

In the accompanying drawings, Fig. 1 is a perspective View of my improved cushioning fender mounted upon the front of an automobile.

Fig. 2 is a top view of the fender attached to an automobile.

Fig. 3 is a horizontal section and top view of the fender on line 38 of Fig. 7.

Fig. 4 is a perspective view of the metallic supporting bar alone.

Fig. 5 is a perspective view of one of the two corresponding impact rails.

Fig. 6 is a-perspective view of one of the vertical tie plates or pieces.

Fig. 7 is a front view of the fender complete.

Fig. 8 is an enlarged vertical cross section of the fender on line 8--8 of Fig. 3, illustrating one way of mounting it upon an automobile frame.

The fender consists of a pair of corresprmding impact rails 5-5 respectively}, having rea-rwardly curved end portions containing round or square bolt openings 6. These two rails extend parallelly edge to edge and are spaced apart a substantial distance and secured together at their corresponding ends by flat vertical strips 7 and bolts and nuts 8. A metallic supporting bar 9 is secured at its opposite terminal portions 10 to the flat vertical strips 7 midway between the points of attachment for upper 55 and lower rails 5 and 5, and flat bar 9 is bent into S-shape relatively near each end or terminal portion 10 to provide resilient spring portions 1212 adapted to cushion any blow or shock imparted to the fender. The middle portion 14: of bar 9 between the resilient 3 portions 1212 is straight or substantially straight and lies in the same vertical plane and flushwith the middle portions 1515 of the two impact rails 55, thereby forming a relatively large flat impact area throughout the middle part of the fender which is practically closed except for the narrow gaps or slots between supporting bar 9 and the upper and lower rails, and excepting the larger openings intermediate the 8 bonds 12-12 and the terminal portionslO of bar 9. However, these larger openings may be practically closed by either extending the terminal portions towards the bends or by forming the first bend 12' nearer terminal 10. As shown the terminal portions 10 are bent forwardly and thence toward the bends 12 which provides rounded terminals for bar 9 and permits the vertical connecting strips 7 and the nuts for bolts 8 to be placed upon the inside of these rounded terminals. The middle impact portions of bar 9 and rails 55 may be tied together at one or more places, for example at the center as exemplified in Figs. 3 and 8, wherein I show a tie plate 17 having screw-threaded studs or bolts 18 passing between the gaps or slots above and below bar I?) and secured by nuts 19 at the rear of said Any suitable mode of attaching this tender upon an automobile may be adopted and used, but as automobiles vary in width the bracket or attachment member is preferably made aseparate part of the fender and the connections are of a kind to permit lateral adjustments to be made. And to facilitate making such attachments in the present fender the S-shaped spring portions 12-12 are made with relatively long terminal portions whereby the bracket or equivalent supporting member 20 may be adjustably connected at various points to the straight part 21. of said terminal portions.

"What I regard my invention or discovery, and desire to claim, is: v

1. A. cushioning tender for an automobile comprising a supporting bar having a middle im pact portion and S-shaped spring portions at opposite ends of said impact portion and impact .rails connected to saidbar parallelly" above and i below said impact portlon and having thelr endshconnectedw with the ends of said. bar.

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f 3. v A cushioning fender. for, anautomobile,

- co1nprising asupporting. barhaving amid i z dle impact portion and supporting terminal portions 13nd,. bent-1 intermediate veach ter-- runinah-portion and the ends of .said/ impactnortion .to provide cushioning springpon tions, and adpaili of strikingrails extending I horizontally .pana'llelhand verticallylflush with; said: middle 1' impact portiom substan-n wtially throughout the major.- lengthof; said ienderand conneoted'at their respective-ends withrthew.corresponding ends of. said sup- 1 porting bar.

4. A: cushioning fender ioran automobile, comprising thnee horizontalstrikingme1nhers of sprlng metal connected together at their corresponding,ends and disposed flush with each.other in a vertical plane and forming a relatlvely high and broad impact face,onewof-isaid members having S-Shapcd spring bends therein and extended rear- .wa-rdlyicofasaidaplane to facilitate attachment with the automobile.

5. A cushioning-dender for fll'LflUtOlllObllO, apair of parallel nppen and" lower flat springstriking rails, and a-central bar of flat spring metal" having a substantiallv straight middle impact portion aligned With said rails and formed with double spring bends and supporting portions. terminating in rounded extremities,anduneans connecting said extremiti es and the corresponding -ends of said rails together.

In testimony whereofI aflix my signature hereto-this 17th day of September, 1923. 

